I don't always agree with the Sisterhood, but this is a good reaction.

Re: defending pedophiles, I can get that they may have a condition, but ACTING on it is a decision, and self control is everyone's responsibility. Failing that self control when you KNOW you are hurting someone else is inexcusable.

I'm not going to side with the pedophiles, even though I don't normally like the sisterhood, but Tat has again given me a chance to at least smile at a strip they are in.

Though for the sake of argument, other people that would have come to Mini-Nique's aid if they were around:

Monique
Fushia
Crimney
Lil'E
Squig
Slick

Didn't include the girl Lil'E hangs out with (forget her name, I have a really bad memory) because I think she's be a bit too naive to understand what would be going on, though this is if she was alone, if she was with the others she'd fight because she'd imitating what the others were doing.

Just to play the middle here, if the alien's planet had a different name and the alien wasn't holding a lollipop, would our reactions still be so visceral? Would we still presume "needs little girls" means what Tat obviously intends it to mean if Tat had not in fact been so obvious?

Are you asking if people responded viscerally because the comic references pedophiles picking up underage girls?

Well, not quite. What I meant is, if all the strip had given us to go on was "needs little girls", would everyone have immediately presumed that Tat was making a pedophilic reference?

Really, though, it's not important. Like I said, it was just something that popped into my head (and I was still half-asleep at the time, anyway), so I tossed it out there.

I'm not going to side with the pedophiles, even though I don't normally like the sisterhood, but Tat has again given me a chance to at least smile at a strip they are in.

Though for the sake of argument, other people that would have come to Mini-Nique's aid if they were around:

Monique
Fushia
Crimney
Lil'E
Squig
Slick

Didn't include the girl Lil'E hangs out with (forget her name, I have a really bad memory) because I think she's be a bit too naive to understand what would be going on, though this is if she was alone, if she was with the others she'd fight because she'd imitating what the others were doing.

Either way, good strip, didn't make me rage, 10/10

None of those others are actually mobilized, nor put effort into looking out for those who might be victimized or taken advantage of. The Sisterhood makes it their job to get in between creeps and their victims, among other things. They put effort and dedication into stopping abuse.

Don't take the "if they were around" part for granted. Don't take that kind of effort for granted. Those who make a difference and actually stand in the way of creeps and abusers don't just fall into that role by accident. They make themselves aware, they bear the burden of awareness, and they should get credit for the effort of what they do.

Once again the Mary Sues that are the Sisterhood forces their views into the comics. I mean why do they always have to be the hero for everything!? I mean what is wrong with...um...one moment, I got to reread the comic to see what they were opposing.

...well this is awkward._________________Desperately praying for a Democrat/Libertarian/Evil Overlord/Inanimate Carbon Rod I can stomach voting for in 2020.

Also, arguably:
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2625
(because, really, how much of that strip's "events" are we supposed to think were "real"? if Slick could really transform himself into a giant hundreds of feet tall, he'd probably do it a lot more often)

I'm not going to side with the pedophiles, even though I don't normally like the sisterhood, but Tat has again given me a chance to at least smile at a strip they are in.

Though for the sake of argument, other people that would have come to Mini-Nique's aid if they were around:

Monique
Fushia
Crimney
Lil'E
Squig
Slick

Didn't include the girl Lil'E hangs out with (forget her name, I have a really bad memory) because I think she's be a bit too naive to understand what would be going on, though this is if she was alone, if she was with the others she'd fight because she'd imitating what the others were doing.

Either way, good strip, didn't make me rage, 10/10

None of those others are actually mobilized, nor put effort into looking out for those who might be victimized or taken advantage of. The Sisterhood makes it their job to get in between creeps and their victims, among other things. They put effort and dedication into stopping abuse.

Don't take the "if they were around" part for granted. Don't take that kind of effort for granted. Those who make a difference and actually stand in the way of creeps and abusers don't just fall into that role by accident. They make themselves aware, they bear the burden of awareness, and they should get credit for the effort of what they do.

They are BATMAN. But Seriously...

It looked to me like the Child Abuser, though, was in the same general area as the Sisterhood in the "Women Zone" Only Xzanthe has her trike, the other two are on foot. I got them impression that they were close, and I just said that if the other people were close too, they would have stepped up too. If they are patrolling for this kind of activity, yes they deserve praise, however if they were just close enough to see, then I believe that any decent human being would have stepped in here too._________________The Angry Asshat.

i knew someone was going to come in here and, because they hate the sisterhood that bad, they'd find some way to force themselves to side with the pedophile.

Oooh....that is clever.

Well, I'm a big Sisterhood fan and am in no way "siding" with the Pedatronian, but a more obvious "defense" approach would've been to simply point out that, really, whatever the Pedatronian's motives and intentions, all he/she/it has actually done so far is to hold up a sign. It might be a bit premature to deem him/her/it worthy of execution.

Of course, one could further point out, with equal accuracy, that all the Sisterhood has done so far is to threaten the Pedotronian. They might have no intention of going so far as to actually kill him/her/it.

Plus, for all we know, the Sisterhood possess detailed knowledge about this particular Pedotronian, perhaps received in an information exchange with the grateful Corruptronians. Maybe he/she/it has the death sentence in twelve systems OSLT.

Either way, it's not as if Tat's going to depict the Sisterhood actually killing the Pedotronian, so I'll admit that it's pretty much a moot point.

On another note, if Tat decides to follow up on this strip in tomorrow's Sunday strip, it's hard to predict how he'd manage it without dialogue, so...

Then again, this alien is ill, which might be why he/she/it doesn't have two legs.

So it would appear that the two-feeler aliens have colonized quite a few planets. Since they've appeared in the past four or five alien strips, Tat seems to have settled upon them as the "default" alien race.

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Moving along, we also have the "two arms, two legs, two antennae" aliens:

One must wonder if they would have bothered to show up if Pedotron was looking for little boys.

Only if one feels the need to assume things without evidence. Is that what you like to do? We might not get along._________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. Iíll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman